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What is cybercrime

Cybercrimelaws on this web site refers to offenses against the information technology infrastructure. Such conducts includes:

  • illegal access: the access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right
  • illegal interception: the interception without right, made by technical means, of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system
  • data interference: the damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data without right
  • system interference: the serious hindering without right of the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data
  • misuse of devices
  • forgery
  • fraud

(Child pornography and copyright infringements are not included)

A short introduction to the history of Cybercrime legislation